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VHS is dead. If you don’t have a functioning VHS player any more, your only option is to buy second-hand devices. But if you still have old, valuable VHS videos (e.g. family videos) you should digitize them today, as long as there are still working VHS players around. Our goal is to feed the audio/video […]

Debian Stretch’s version of ezstream is currently a bit out of date. Here is how you compile ezstream from source to get the latest improvements and bugfixes. Not even the INSTALL file in the ezstream repo has all the steps:

A Zero Client is a computer that has nothing on its permanent storage but a bootloader. Rather, it loads everything from the network. With the method presented in this article, you will be able to boot a Raspberry Pi into a full Debian OS with nothing more on the SD card other than the Raspberry firmware […]

Your DSL internet connection is too slow? Want to set up an improvised office? You do not want to pay for a DSL internet plan when you already have a fast 4G mobile plan? If yes to one of the above, it is quite easy to configure a Raspberry Pi to share one mobile internet connection to an […]

This tutorial is based on a previous article where we installed pure Debian 9 with a recent mainline/vanilla Linux kernel on a Raspberry Pi, and so differs from what would be done on a Raspbian Distribution with a Raspbian kernel. In this article, we will read the Raspberry Pi chip temperature. Here is my previous article: Raspberry […]

This tutorial is based on my previous article where we installed pure Debian 9 with a recent mainline/vanilla Linux kernel, and so differs from what would be done on a Raspbian Distribution with a Raspbian kernel. In this article, we will set the I2C bus speed on a Raspberry Pi. Here is my previous article: Raspberry Pi […]

Update 2017 Feb 25: I have updated the step-by-step instructions based on the suggested fixes and improvements contained in the reader comments. I also have copied the step-by-step instructions from this blog post to the README.md file hosted on https://github.com/michaelfranzl/rpi23-gen-image. From now on I will update the instructions only on github, so expect that the instructions in this […]

ImageMagick’s
convert tool is handy for converting a series of images into a PDF. Just for future reference, here is one method how you can achieve the same without
convert. It is useful if you have 1-bit PBM images (e.g. scanned text) at hand:

Here is my method to digitize books. It is a tutorial about how to produce searchable, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) PDFs from a hardcopy book using free software tools on Linux distributions. You probably can find more convenient proprietary software, but that’s not the objective of this post. Important: I should not need to mention that depending […]

HTTPS on 100% of websites in the internet? This just has gotten a lot easier! Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), run for the public’s benefit. Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), a Section 501(c)(3) Non-Profit entity dedicated to reduce financial, technological, and education barriers to […]